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@terfsichore
Heard in a lecture today: “This apllies both to Americans and African-Americans”. WTF. Surely “Americans” should cover U.S. citizens of all races and ethnicities? And if you meant the research was done on black and white Americans you could say just that without implying black Americans are less of Americans AND erasing all the other racial groups (bc I’m pretty sure they weren’t included under the default “American”).
give cash directly & unconditionally to the homeless
make sure they are spending it on something that will actualy help their lives tho
ah…
no.
give cash UNCONDITIONALLY. it’s not your business how they spend it. you don’t get to walk along with them holding on to the other end of the $1 until you see them pass it over to someone you approve of. if they get food do you get to decide where they get it from? if you see them pass it off to someone, do you get to interrogate that person as to whether they’re a friend or someone who lent them money earlier or a dealer? would you go around trying to stop any and every exchange of drugs, or just if you think someone is too poor or too homeless? how do you know if someone’s drug use is the “cause” (theres never just one cause) of someones homelessness? you do NOT get to feel superior. they ask for money, you choose to give it, it does NOT give you any right to “supervise” them or control how they use their own money. people think that everyone who is homeless or at risk of it (SO SO MANY people are at risk of it) are in that position because they did something to deserve it or are inherently lacking as people somehow, and that they have to be “led” into better Life Choices via patronizing conditionalities that often sabotage someones efforts to take care of themselves. they are NOT lesser people, you do not know anything about them, you don’t have any right to insert your judgment in what they should do to prove they “deserve” any tiny piece of the same resources we wouldn’t question going to anyone who seems Not-Poor enough. you don’t know what would actually improve their lives. you certainly don’t get to think that you know better than they do what they need at any given moment. they are individuals and they are people. to suggest they need your guidance to make good life choices only implies your own biased assumptions about why someone is homeless.
give cash directly and unconditionally to the homeless
meghan sayin’ it best
the assumption that women in prostitution don’t feel uncomfortable bc they are financially compensated shows the extent to which they’re not seen as living feeling human beings. there is no other group so thoroughly dehumanized in our collective consciousness than prostituted women.
Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behaviour. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong
Germaine Greer, Guilt Poisons Women (via uninucleus)
The way some people who don’t own guns talk about what they imagine to be what is is like owning a gun is honestly horrifying. I saw someone say, “You get into an argument with your friend and you’re gonna go for the gun” like bitch speak for yourself???? I assure you that is not a universal condition. I guarantee I have been inches from a loaded shotgun and annoyed not been like, “I’m gonna go fucking shoot my roommate for not throwing away his cereal box.”
I can’t think what would give people such a faulty impression about gun owners. The body count maybe?
the op is kinda like this british journalist who ridiculed a woman for wanting sex segregated changing rooms: “what are you scared of? what do you think I’M going to do?”
nobody thinks all or even most gun owners are so unhinged they’re gonna shoot someone bc of an argument. but since it’s easier to kill someone with a gun rather than without it some of us find it prefarable when people around us don’t have guns.
Dad Admits Drugging, Sexually Assaulting, Killing Daughter
A California father who drugged, sexually assaulted and killed the 14-year-old daughter whose remains were found in 2009 buried in the backyard of the family’s former home faces life in prison without parole after confessing to those and other crimes against female minors, PEOPLE confirms.
The guilty plea announced Tuesday by Mark Edward Mesiti, 49, of Modesto, abruptly cut short his murder trial at which prosecutors were pursuing the death penalty against him, Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced in a statement.
Mesiti’s daughter, Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti’s former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter’s remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed “hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
During the trial that began Oct. 3, Mesiti’s defense attorney Martin Baker argued that Alycia’s diary suggested she was a drug addict, with her writing in one passage that she “wanted to feel nothing,” reports the Turlock Journal.
He said the presumed manner of her death from an overdose “will require a not-guilty verdict.”
But as the trial that was expected to last for months continued, Mesiti’s attorneys offered to have him plead guilty to all counts if the prosecutor would agree not to seek the death penalty, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Annette Rees agreed to the plea — with a sentence of life in prison without parole — if Mesiti he would confess to his crimes in open court.
“Mesiti told the court he committed rape, sodomy, oral copulation, digital penetration and child molestation involving his daughter, Alycia, many times over several different occasions,” the prosecutor’s office says. “He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia’s death.”
“Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old,” the statement said. “He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles.”
Mesiti’s attorneys declined comment to the media after the guilty verdict.
“It’s over,” Alycia’s maternal great-aunt, Roberta Fitzpatrick, said after Mesiti pleaded guilty, according to the Bee. “I just want to put this all behind me, except for honoring Alycia.”
Formal sentencing is set for Nov. 28.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59653077e4b0911162fc2f7c
Widely Anticipated Article Confirms Court Mistreatment of Protective Mothers
For decades, protective mothers have been complaining that family courts are tilted to favor abusive fathers and that they face corruption.
Remind me again how women are always given custody even when they’re unstable. Remind me how dads who are well suited to parenthood never get custody. The judge handing this girl over to a rapist and murderer says a lot about the judge. He looked at this monster and saw himself. That judge, whose name is noticeably absent from the article, is an accomplice to murder and should be held accountable but much like the judge in the Brock Turner was excused quietly by his peers.
Mesiti’s defense attorney Martin Baker argued that Alycia’s diary suggested she was a drug addict, with her writing in one passage that she “wanted to feel nothing,”
And why, exactly, does Mr. Baker think Alycia wanted to feel nothing? Again, females are blamed for what males do to us.
The “niqab bans only serve to further punish vulnerable Muslim women” argument relies on a hidden assumption - that the men who push the niqab on women in their families are all religious fanatics who’d rather not let a woman leave the home at all than let her go niqab-less.
And while I’m sure there are some men like that I don’t think they’re the majority. Most people are opportunists - they will exploit a chance to get something they want IF they can get it without facing any negative consequences. And there are many possible negative conseqences niqab loving men could face for locking women up in their homes. Did she have a job before the ban? Now she can’t go to work so he’s the single earner. Did she do the shopping? Now she can’t do that either. Was she in charge of collecting benefits? Taking children out for a walk? No longer an option.
So what I’m trying to say here is not: niqab bans are great and a clear path to liberation!!!! What I’m saying, or rather asking is this: what tools are we giving the women living with these niqab loving men to resist their oppression if we allow it to remain legal?
Friendly reminder it took until the 70s for TERF mindset to seep into radical feminism, which had been around since the 60s during the 2nd wave.
Radical feminism was inclusive - and still largely was - to trans women. The womyn-for-womyn movement isolated, abused, harrassed, and then forced a large number of trans women to leave the radfem sphere nevertheless.
In other words: TERFs co-opted an inclusive movement, not the other way around.
Learn your history.
Hey that’s really interesting do you have a source? A book? I’d be interested in reading this view and this history
This isn’t true. Not at all. Don’t listen to their revisionist history.
what is this idiotic racist white nonsense? lmao
They’re trying to revise feminism history this time fml
i just hate this racist denial of sex-based oppression, like please tell me more about how radical chicana and black feminists who understood how they’re treated here and how their sisters in their homelands are treated based on their sex would be like ‘ah, yes, but these males who choose to label themselves women later in life suffered the same way we did and absolutely understand what it’s like growing up in our cultures as female and therefore we’ll include them’
It’s blatantly false anyways, bc this trend of claiming that biological sex isn’t real/changes based on your feelings, is very recent. Trans people used to understand sex-based oppression.
Ive never once made the claim that biological sex isn’t real, nor have I heard trans people make similar claims. Cognitive disconnect between one’s sex and gender - however not always - usually makes someone transgender.
My problem lay in using that to misgender and harrass trans people, which has been a common occurance even to this day. Denying them access to bathrooms & women’s shelters puts them at further risk.
Pull your head out of your ass then because, “bio sex is a social construct” is the entirety of transactivism’s platform lately.
So many transactivists (not all of whom are trans) were so angry when Chimamanda tried to point this out, too. Feminists aren’t allowed to point out the differences between the two sexes without getting labeled “terf”.
And yes, people have been denying biological sex a lot lately.
highly intelligent children are still children, children who look older than they are are still children, children who act older than they are are still children, children who want to be older than they are are still children, children who have been through a lot are still children
and all children should be treated in a respectful way that acknowledges their personhood, but that doesn’t mean treating them as though they are adults.
and if a child is precocious in one aspect of development it doesn’t mean she’s actually more likely to be “adult like” in other aspects. she’s not more ready for sex bc she grew breasts earlier than her peers, she’s not more emotionally mature bc she could do 7th grade math at age 8, she’s no more prepared for dealing with responsibility than any other child her age even if she was pushed into it by circumstances.
Scott Wilson, 20, (pictured) was attacked by Shelton Dube at the hostel in Newcastle where they both lived, despite having explained that he identifies as a man and was attracted to women.
A transgender man has revealed his horrific ordeal after he was raped by a serial sex attacker in a hostel after offering to help put away his groceries.
Scott Wilson, 20, was attacked by Shelton Dube at the hostel where they both lived, despite having explained that he identifies as a man and was attracted to women.
Dube, 23, pounced in Mr Wilson’s room after they had been out for groceries, having first told him he was ‘pretty’ and had ‘very kissable lips’.
Mr Wilson said: ‘I thought he was joking on because I had already explained, yes, I’m a trans man.
‘I identify as a man, I’m attracted to women, I didn’t see why he could be serious. That was when he forced himself on me.’
It’s almost as though rapists don’t care how women identify?
I think this is the third recent case I’ve read of trans-identified females who think that declaring to a rapist that they “identify as a man” will save them from rape. I remember one case in particular where a trans-identified female recounted telling her rapist over and over “I identify as a man!” because she honestly believed this would stop him from wanting to rape her.
This is one of many dangers of trans ideology - the idea that identifying as something makes you that thing and the idea that literally everyone in the world must see you as that thing is not only false, it’s dangerous and hurtful. These women thought that their rapists wouldn’t want to rape them if they knew they “identified as men” because they were taught by trans ideology that the moment the male rapists became aware of their identity, they would immediately see them as men and no longer want to rape them. Obviously, this is not the case, because the reality of the situation prevails and their rapist was aware that they were female and “identity” doesn’t matter.
(Of course, this also has an insulting and misogynistic counterpart: the idea that they would have deserved to be raped, or that it would have been okay that they were raped, if only they “identified as women”. But that, too, is brought from trans activism, which teaches that females who don’t identify as trans deserve and must accept rape, assault, murder and more submissively and without comment.)
They would call this “misdirected misogyny” even though this guy knew exactly why he was targeting this person and for what reason.
There was the case from Halifax, Nova Scotia where a trans man was raped by their taxi driver and apparently kept saying “I’m a man!”
Not surprisingly, the rapist didn’t agree and didn’t care.
Trans men must be careful: feel free to identify however you like, but never forget that biology is unchangeable and someone who’s going to rape you isn’t going to care how you identify.
After all, when you scream, it’s in a female range.
@sikander-sg
Why not try reblogging in a format that people can engage with, if you’re going to have the audacity to try and lecture us.
Look: here’s the sad truth. Those individuals are not men. They will never be men. They are female, and the people predating on them know it.
You say “they told the rapist because straight men aren’t attracted to trans men”. Aren’t you a sweet summer child, then, because rapists are about power, and they’re males who want power over females.
What could be more powerful than reminding a female who thinks she’s a man that she’s female after all?
This is male violence against females, and sadly they had to find out the hard way that reality > identity. Your identity will not protect you from reality.
@sikander-sg what do you honestly think would happen? A misogynistic male person preying on who they know to be a female person would just say “oh I’m sorry sir, I’ll go find a woman to rape instead” or “Ew! You identify as a man? Well now it’s gay!” Do you think rape is actually about attraction to begin with? Do you think male rapists respect the opinions of their female victims?
The reality of the sex-based oppression of females is a harsh one but it’s one that needs to be confronted.
4chan asshole dude who thinks the concept of “nonbinary” is stupid: LOL these dumb tRigGErT bitches think they’re special snowflakes ha ha this is so funny to mock because I have not matured past the stage of “4th grade class bully”
Me, who thinks the concept of “nonbinary” is stupid: The phenomenon of “nonbinary"identities stems from the female population’s discomfort with the gender roles and expectations forced onto them by a male-dominated society. This only serves to further enforce people’s views on gender, which is an inherently oppressive concept. This is largely a sad thing to observe and I am concerned for these kid’s future wellbeings
Genderists: This is somehow the same thing
The Russian Orthodox church on King George Island, Antarctica
Internalized misogyny
…gotta fix that last bug…with…extensive elective surgery with tons of complications and a lifelong regimen of sterilizing cross sex hormones…how cute uwu
PLEASE tell me what “intellectually male” means without making your misogyny blatantly apparent, I’m literally dying to see this
this is the worst thing ever
the seven deadly sins but instead of being represented by a busty woman, lust is an incel
Lust is always depicted as an object of lust while the others are depicted as partaking in their sin. So yes, an incel would be an improvement on that depiction, if people really wanted to be realistic. In fact, all the sins would be better represented by misogynistic men.
Pride: PUA
Envy: MTT
Lust: incel
Sloth: couch potato dude while his wife slaves away
Wrath: wife-beater
Greed: rich politician
Gluttony: alcoholic male
Men don’t act violently because they lost control. They act violently to maintain control.
I was so inspired by the Russian fairy tale illustrations of Ivan Bilibin! <3
things that never cease to amaze me: the creative ways people use language and the social functions it fills
